# Brockville

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #87,100

## Definitions
1. A city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
2. An outer suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

## Etymology
From the surname Brock + -ville.
*In Ontario, named after Isaac Brock, major general and temporary administrator of the province of Upper Canada. Formerly named Elizabethtown, then a village.
*In Dunedin, named after settler Frederick Brock-Hollinshead.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/brockville